First steps : how upright walking made us human / Jeremy Desilva.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062938497
- ISBN: 0062938495
- ISBN: 9780062938497 : HRD
- ISBN: 0062938495 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780062938497
- ISBN: 0062938495
- Physical Description: xvii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-324) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- The origin of upright walking. How we walk ; T. rex, the Carolina Butcher, and the first bipeds ; "How the human stood upright" and other just-so stories about bipedalism ; Lucy's ancestors ; Ardi and the River Gods -- Becoming human. Ancient footprints ; Many ways to talk a mile ; Hominins on the move ; Migration to Middle Earth -- Walk of life. Baby steps ; Birth and bipedalism ; Gail differences and what they mean ; Myokines and the cost of immobility ; Why walking helps us think ; Of ostrich feet and knee replacements -- Conclusion: The emphatic ape. |
Summary, etc.: | Human are the only mammals to walk on two rather than four legs, a locomotion known as bipedalism. This has its drawbacks: giving birth is more difficult; our running speed is much slower than that of other animals; and we suffer ailments from hernias to scoliosis. DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seemingly everyday ability is-- and shows how upright walking is a gateway to many of the other attributes that make us human. -- adapted from jacket |
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Subject: | Human evolution. Bipedalism. Human beings > Origin. |
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